abstract background: misdiagnosis of the acute appendicitis may increase the rate of negative appendectomies, which involve a huge waste of resources and are sometimes associated with severe complications. furthermore, false negative result of ultrasonography (us) could lead to perforation of appendix. since ultrasonography is still the most common imaging technique used in iranian appendicitis...

Prenatal and postnatal ultrasonography has dramatically increased the number of infants detected with significant asymptomatic uropathology. We report of a fetus with hydronephrosis and dilated ureter, diagnosed insidentally at 25 week of gestation. On assumption of left sided ureteropelvic junction obstruction, postnatal serial diagnostic investigations including abdominal ultrasonography, voi...

Tubal pregnancies are common but presence of hydatidiform mole in tube is a rare entity. A woman of 53years presented with acute abdomen, preoperative pregnancy test was positive and ultrasonography suspected the case as hydatidiform mole in right tube. The patient was treated with total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy as her family was completed. Subsequent histopat...